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Continential Congress

The British Parliment was once in control of the United States of America. 2603:7000:B901:8500:F03B:6566:85F8:C36B (talk) 01:04, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Parliament of Great Britain had a vague and ill defined relationship to Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies. However, the Continental Congress was a body created and constituted by the separate American colonies/states. It had no formal relationship to Parliament, but rather stood in opposition to Parliament's claim to have authority to tax and legislate for the colonies. Ltwin (talk) 01:57, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Current numbers of parties' MPs

I think Labour has one more MP, and the LDs one fewer, than is shown here, ie, 197 and 14, not 196 and 15. Page House of Commons of the United Kingdom has 14 LDs but 196 for Labour, so its numbers don't add up. I base this on looking at a vote on https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/1372?byMember=False#ayes to see who voted for fracking, incidentally. So both this page and the HoC one need altering. Nick Barnett (talk) 15:36, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick Barnett members.parliament.uk gives 196 and 14 - the difference with your figure is that Christian Matheson had the whip suspended today and then immediately resigned, but that wasn't the case on Tuesday. (Or whatever day the vote was - feels like fifteen years ago...). There's a detailed timeline at the bottom of List of MPs elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election although those pages are not always well crosslinked.

Agree the LD figure is wrong, though - will fix just now Andrew Gray (talk) 16:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see . . . so Mr Matheson has resigned as an MP altogether, not just as a Labour MP, so the numbers are correct to add up to 649 until after the by-election. Thanks Andrew. Nick Barnett (talk) 16:41, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Andrew Bridgen and the Reclaim Party

Please update this article to include the single seat for the Reclaim party held by Andrew Bridgen 82.37.83.242 (talk) 13:22, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agreement

Yes i agree they should update it GothicGolem29 (talk) 14:38, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]